I think about friendship when I read these beautiful words from today’s Psalm, friendship with the Lord. I remember once when I was a teenager, I met a young man who spoke about Jesus like I spoke about my friends. Jesus was his friend. He knew, he experienced, that Jesus was very near to him.

I wanted to have this same relationship with Jesus. I wanted to have Jesus as my friend. How does that happen? I wondered.

The fact is, Jesus is already our friend. In John’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that we are his friends (John 15,14-15). It is we who must come near to ham. It is we who must know him. It is we who must call upon him.

How does one begin? Only tell Jesus that you want to know him, to come near to him. Tell him that in your heart. Read about him in the New Testament. Speak to him as you would a friend, and hear in your heart what he says to you.

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